Enugu Security Trust Fund Raises Over N3b at the Fundraising Dinner

Over three billion naira has been raised for the Enugu State Security Trust Fund at the fundraising dinner organized by the Board of Trustees of the Security Trust Fund at the Old Government Lodge in Enugu. An official statement released by the Senior Special Assistant to the Enugu State Governor on Media, Mr. Dan Nwomeh reveals that more than N3billion Naira was realized at the dinner from individuals and corporate bodies. Recounting his administration’s interventions...

Tony Oneweek Bemoans ‘paltry’ Constituency Project Allocation to Idemili North LGA

Gyration music maestro and former member of Anambra State House of Assembly who represented Idemili North Constituency, Hon. Tony Oneweek Muonagor, has expressed disappointment over the federal government’s allocation of 18 projects totaling N724 million Naira to Idemili North LGA as constituency projects. Hon. Mounagor who was a former Special Adviser to Governor Willie Obiano, reacting to the story by the West African Pilot News, on the planned Town Hall by Active Citizens Movement demanding...

Muslim Group Calls for Probe Into USAID’s Alleged Boko Haram Funding

The Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) has called on the National Assembly to investigate allegations that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) may have funded Boko Haram, the terrorist group responsible for thousands of deaths across Nigeria. The allegations stem from claims made by U.S. Congressman Scott Perry during a congressional hearing, where he suggested that USAID had financially supported Boko Haram and other extremist groups. Perry, a Republican representative from Pennsylvania, accused...

Call Oyetola To Order, He’s Plotting Chaos In Osun, Adeleke Tells Tinubu

 Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has alleged that the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Gboyega Oyetola, is planning to cause chaos in the state from Monday, February 17, 2025  Adeleke, while addressing a press conference on Sunday, claimed that Oyetola was spearheading moves to enforce an alleged court order which reversed the sack of local council chairpersons elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun. He also claimed the...

Anambra 2025: Contenders Step up Plans to Unseat Governor Soludo

Aspirants in APC and LP for the Anambra 2025 Governorship election, have stepped up plans to unseat the incumbent governor, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo. With party primaries for the gubernatorial election expected to be held from next month, many of the aspirants have now commenced putting in the required work to make good their vow to sack Soludo. So far, two aspirants in the Labour Party have picked the party’s nomination and expression of interest...

Group Raises Concerns about N21B Constituency Funds to Anambra Central Zone

A group, Active Citizens Movement in collaboration with the Coalition of Cooperative Societies, has called for accountability from federal lawmakers in Anambra Central senatorial zone over constituency funds totaling about N21 billion Naira. The group has planned a town hall meeting with the three federal lawmakers representing the three federal constituencies in Anambra Central, as well as the senator representing the Anambra Central senatorial zone. Anambra Central federal constituencies and representatives are as follows; Awka...

Dr. Joseph Ikpea Eyes Governor Monday Okpebholo’s Senate Seat

Nearly three months after he was sworn in as the Governor of Edo State, schemes have advanced for who replaces Governor Monday Okpebholo at the Senate for Edo Central Senatorial Zone, with Dr. Joseph Ikpea’s interest in contesting the senate seat. Governor Okpebholo was a serving senator representing Edo Central before he emerged as the APC candidate for the Edo State governorship election in 2024 and thereafter won the election, thereby leaving the senate seat...

Border Dispute: Adamawa State Gov’t Proposes “give and take” Agreement

The Adamawa State Government has proposed a “give and take” agreement between Nigeria and Cameroon as a measure to resolve the lingering border demarcation problem between the two countries. Stakeholders include traditional rulers, religious leaders, representatives of security agencies, and Adamawa State government officials from four border local government areas in Adamawa state, including Madagali, Michika, Mubi North, and South Mubi held a meeting in Mubi to discuss a proposed diplomatic solution to the border demarcation...

Adebanjo: A Great Titan Has Been Lost, PANDEF Mourns

The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has mourned the passing of the leader of Afenifere, describing the late elder statesman as a great Titan. A press statement on Friday signed by the national chairman of the organisation, Ambassador Godknows Igali, reads, “On behalf of the Board of Trustees and National Leadership of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), and the entire people of the South-South geopolitical zone, we are profoundly shocked and saddened by the...

South-West Governors Form Joint Security Team to Tackle Rising Insecurity

Governors from Nigeria’s South-West region have resolved to establish a joint surveillance team to combat rising insecurity, including the growing threat posed by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP). The decision was reached on Thursday during a four-hour meeting at the Lagos State House, Alausa, Ikeja, under the aegis of the South-West Governors’ Forum (SGF). The meeting had in attendance Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Lucky Aiyedatiwa (Ondo), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Ademola...

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